Christmas snapshots

Making and tasting Christmas cookies.

Setting out cookies and milk for Santa.

Setting out oatmeal and carrots for Santa's reindeer.

Christmas in Georgia.

Scott's Mom & Dad.

We had so much fun this Christmas. It was the first year the we were actually home on Christmas morning. Ryan had a blast opening all his stuff. Some highlights were the storm trooper costume, spiderman costume, hotwheels set, batman stuff, artist easle, and of course the trampoline. We think Aiden had as much fun as Ryan too.
Christmas breakfast "pigs in the blankets."

One quick pose before all of this loot becomes mine!

Church Christmas photos

Trying to get a photo for our Christmas cards this year was a hoot. We went up to the church where we had several decorated trees. We thought that this would be simple as pie with such a great backdrop. But trying to get all of us smiling and not spitting up at the same time was a bit challenging to say the least. Then clothes started coming off...only from the kids, thank you. Anyway, we got a couple of good shots but most of our photos are just taken at home.

These were taken the day we had Family Dedication at the church.

This is our first year to have a Magic Elf come for a visit. This is Ryan putting out the crackers and snowflake water to lure him to visit. If you don't know what I'm talking about just visit
elf-magic.com. It's a lot of fun.

This was the first night our Magic elf came to visit. His name is Rocco.

Rocco was playing like he was Noah and he got all of Ryan's animals and lined them up marching to a boat. He also brought Ryan some animal cookies for a treat.

Rocco was missing the snow from the North Pole so he decorated the bathroom into a winter wonderland.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ryan is imitating Aiden's smile.

Gobble Gobble!

Ryan's class at school dressed up like Indians and Pilgrims.

We stayed home for Thanksgiving this year. Here is how the boys spent the morning while I was cooking the Thanksgiving meal.

Happy Halloween!

Pumpkin carving and decorating.

Ryan is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle and his best friend Hudson is Transformer Optimus Prime! This was taken at our church's Trunk-or-Treat.

Aiden made a perfect little skeleton!

We took Ryan to see Disney On Ice...can you say he was a bit excited!

First taste of cotton candy.

The feature to the show was the Incredibles. This is our little "Dash"

Ryan's 4th Birthday

Yes that was my attempt at a camo cake for his GI Joe birthday party.

Ryan and his best buds Seaver, and Hudson.

October birthdays in Georgia

We have several birthdays in October so we usually take a trip to Georgia and celebrate them all together. Scott's brothers Matt and Mike were both born on October 5 (5 years apart.) And Scott's Dad and Ryan share October 19 as a birthday. I won't say how many years apart. :) We had some fun at Victoria Bryant State Park in Georgia. It was a nice day except for those stinking yellowjackets and of course the way the day ended. Jessica's (Mike's wife) car went off a steep embankment and flipped 3 and 1/2 times. It was an amazing miracle that she walked away with no major wounds. We pray her hands and feet heal soon.

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Pumpkin Patch Pickin' @ Old Baker's Farm

This year we went to a new Pumpkin patch just south of Birmingham and had a wonderful time; althought my battery went dead on our camera so I had to take some shots with our video camera. I haven't uploaded those yet so come back to see the "perfect" pumpkins we all picked. We liked this farm better than last year because they had so many more pumpkins and they were still on the vines. There were also so many cute things for the kids to enjoy at this farm.
John Deer look out!

Ryan loved the Cotton bail bounce. Who needs giant inflatables?


I think the hay maze got the best of him. He looks so confused.

Nope...that was a dead end too.

Camping Trip

We missed the family campout on Labor Day weekend because we just had Aiden. But now that he was a whopping 7 weeks old we thought he was big enough to brave the wild outdoors. He did great. But the weekend didn't start out so great. We were going to camp at Oak Mountain State Park just on the south side of Birmingham. I was going to go out to the campground and get our site and then Scott was going to meet us there after work. Well when I got there the campground was full-no campsites available. So plan b- Scott called several other parks in Alabama and they were full too. We couldn't believe it, but we finally found a site available at Wind Creek State Park near Auburn....I know we weren't sure if wanted to go there just becuase it was Auburn country. But we drove the hour and 1/2 down there and set up our camp in the dark. That night we were exhausted but the rest of the weekend proved to be restful and tons of fun!


Daddy's big helper!


Yes that really is Scott changing a diaper in the tent.